Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Sir Gimp wrote:
You can record a macro and assign a keystroke to the macro. I've used
this method for years and it works very well.
(select the em dash from the INSERT/SPECIALCHARACTER menu while
recording your macro)
Good idea, but...
I have never been able to *find* the em-dash or en-dash in the
Special Characters list, and I can't find anything about it in the Help
(which talks only about the AutoCorrect method of inserting dashes), so
your method doesn't work for me. I suspect that the vast majority of OOo
users would have the same problem.
If you can tell me where the dashes are, that would be a great help.
The en-dash is Unicode character U+0213 and the em-dash is Unicode
character U+0214. The next character U+0215 (not found in most fonts) is
named HORIZONTAL BAR is intended to be used as a quotation dash or any
especially long dash.
Characters appear in Unicode order in the Special Characters dialogue
box and the Unicode number of the currently selected character appears
in the bottom right-hand corner of the box.
These dashes are followed by various typographical quotation mark
symbols. Once you get used to finding the supplemental punctuation group
in the Special Characters dialogue box, these specific dash characters
cannot be missed. They are part of the "General Punctuation" block in
Unicode, meaning the most common general punctuation not already
included in standard ASCII. In most fonts they are the only dash-like
characters that will appear in the "Special Characters" list.
For charts of the complete Unicode character set see
http://www.unicode.org/charts The name index is at
http://www.unicode.org/charts/charindex.html Search on DASH for various
kinds of dashes.
If you are using Windows, you can also find and insert non-keyboard
characters though the system menu Start -> All Programs -> Accessories
-> System Tools -> Character Map. Character Map provides more
information as to the identity of characters via tool tip help when your
mouse pointer lingers on any of the characters.
Jallan
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